A 29-year-old woman who received 16 stab wounds in Indaiala, in the Itajai Valley, has been discharged from the hospital. It happened on Friday (14) around midnight on Melvin Jones Street in the Carijos area. The stab wounds hit the back, arms and neck of the woman, who was taken to the Beatriz Ramos hospital.

Melvin Jones Street in Indaiala, where a woman was stabbed 16 times – Photo: Alexandre de Oliveira/NDTV/ND

team NDTV went to the place and talked to people who helped the woman. Retiree Pascasio Ferreira, who lives on the street, said the family was asleep when they heard the woman screaming and asking for help. They got up and went to see what it was.

“I woke up crying for help. I opened my bedroom window and saw a girl in front of my neighbor’s house asking for help, when she saw me she came to talk to me. The wife went out to the balcony and asked what she needed, she said that she had been robbed. Then we realized that she was covered in blood. We ran with a towel to stop the bleeding and have already called the fire department and the military police,” he says.

He also claims that the victim said that she was kidnapped by criminals and that she spoke about her children, asking for help. “She said that three men caught her on a BR-470, brought her there and stabbed her. She only asked not to let her die, that she had three children who needed her. We saw that she became very ill, ”recalls the pensioner.

Residents suspect that the woman was thrown into a ravine located on the street, where, according to them, the bodies of other criminals have already been found. She would then walk about 500 meters until she reached the houses and started asking for help.

The gorge into which the woman was thrown – Photo: Alexandre de Oliveira / NDTV / ND

Civil Police

Indaial’s spokesman, Flavia Rigoni, said that the civilian police had already gone to the scene to investigate the facts and launched an investigation, but did not provide further details.